LiFT (Learning in Families Together)
Ideas for Learning at home during the holidays
- Play some board games with friends and family members—Snakes and Ladders, Uno and Yahtzee are great ones for learning about numbers, but any turn taking games are fun.
- Play some card games such as Snap, Fish and Old Maid. For older children games like Solitaire or 500 are good to learn. Instructions can be googled.
- Watch a movie together and talk about your favourite parts of the movie and what happened during the movie. You might find a book that is the same as the movie that you can read and compare the two.
- Do some cooking together - help to write a shopping list, prepare items needed, measure the ingredients and follow the recipe.
- Read a book together and draw and discuss your favourite part of the story.
- Make some playdough - use it for making all sorts of interesting things. A great recipe is on the container of cream of tartar - found in the supermarket.
- Go on a hunt in the garden and collect some things you could use to print into the playdough - eg leaves, flowers, rocks.
- Go for a walk or to the park and do a treasure hunt - see who can be the first to find a list of pre-organised things such as a feather, a red flower, a seagull, etc.
- Make a movie on an phone or laptop - write out the script and choose the actors. Find the props needed, learn lines. Find a person to film and watch it back together later.
- Do a large puzzle together - taking note of the shapes and picture parts of the puzzle that fit together.
- Write a letter to a friend or family member you have not seen over the holidays. Include a drawing or something you have made to make it special.
